Here below is a snapshot taken from a VNC viewer
connected to the RPiBT :

The main issue that showed up in this project was the
blockchain synchronisation of the Bitcoin client with the Bitcoin network. The
synchronisation task requires a lot of read/write access, that the slow SD card
can’t easily performs quickly.

To overcome the synchronisation issue, the full
blockchain has been copied to the SD card. After the copy, the Raspberry Pi is
able to catch up the blockchain synchronisation quickly.

As this was painful to do, I decided to share the
RPiBTC image. Before making it public, I’ve added also some interesting
features:

Remote
desktop (VNC Viewer or Remote Desktop Connection)

uPNP
support for the Bitcoin client.

Iptables
for the protection

WARNING

Up to now, I don’t find my RPiBTC setup secure enough
to hold my wallet. So I recommend you to the same.